The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam

Vietnam War

In the annals of American history, there may be no other country name that evokes such emotion as the country of Vietnam. The history of this conflict is more than just a military struggle. The impact that the Vietnam conflict had on American culture and foreign policy for many decades to come makes it a truly watershed war in the life of a relatively young country.

The Civil War of America - American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war that was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. 

The Civil War

America has been part of some devastating battles over her long history.   World War I and World War II were tremendously difficult conflicts and ones that taxed the nationís resources to the maximum.  But none of those conflicts can compare to The Civil War not only for the brutality and devastation of human life but in the damage to social fabric that was caused by that terrible conflict.

America is proud that it has never had a battle on its native soil.  Other than Pearl Harbor and 911, we have never even been attacked on our own soil.  So it took a war of brother against brother, American against American to make even the possibility of war within the borders of America even possible.

The Legacy of Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Born in the Republic of Genoa, under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. 

Christopher Columbus ;

The Legacy of Columbus

If you thought back to the first things you ever learned about the history of America, the one that jumps out is that Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America is 1492 .  While the date is correct, we later learned when our study of history became more scholarly that there is some dispute about whether Columbus discovered America at all.  So what is the real legacy that this legend of Columbus has given to the American culture that has made him such a revered figure in cultural history ?

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson ; He was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; the nation's first secretary of state ; second vice president ; and, as the third president , the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase .

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson is one of those almost mythic figures from early American history that stand tall as one of the great heroes of the revolution and the early definition of what this country was going to become.  Sometimes it's easy to look at a figure that stands so tall in history and think, perhaps some of that is myth.  But when you look at the history of the times, he was every bit as great as our adoration of him suggests he was.

Thomas Jeffersonís service to the new American union lasted over fifty years.  He not only contributed to the core philosophical underpinnings upon which our democracy  based, he served in a variety of offices and made some phenomenal contributions to the developing country including.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSE was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. 

Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes when a country is just getting organized , its citizens are considered to be uneducated, out of touch or primitive .  But exactly opposite was the truth when the great American experiment began to take shape .  The world did not see America as provincial or simple and that is due to a large part to the work of the man many that many have called him The First American.  That man was Benjamin Franklin.